Chronique
Metal
Storm
Others
Note
: 09
/ 10
Année
: 2007
Style
: Doom Death
In
2004 I had the chance to write the review
of the second album of a really good
and impressive band from France, Distress.
Three years later, the band is back
with a new release "Others",
an album a lot more complex and deep
which is first a real confirmation of
the amazing talent of the band but which
will be also the release which will
launch an international career for the
band. If you like Doom/Death or Progressive
extreme music a la Opeth, please don't
miss this release!
"The
Mourning Sign" was already a good
album but I can tell you that "Others"
is even better! The ones who already
know the previous releases of the French
combo will probably wonder how it can
be possible to do something better because
Distress always released great albums
but trust me, they found the way to
sublimate themselves to release a real
masterpiece. "Others" is complex
and deep and extremely original, this
is not the kind of album that you can
listen to everyday. The songs are all
really long (between five and nine minutes
for each track) and all have a lot of
variations in their structures. A bit
like with Opeth, you have a lot of breaks,
change of rhythms acoustic parts like
really heavy ones, it's a real album
of Progressive Extreme Metal. Also,
we have an alternation between Death
vocals and clean mystical voices which
give a really special aspect to the
music of the band, and that's really
cool. But it's extreme for sure and
the principal difference with a band
like Opeth is that the music of Distress
is more oriented toward the Doom Metal
direction instead of the Death Metal
one.
"Others"
has a really good production, the sound
is perfect and the interpretations of
the musicians are just excellent. If
you had that all (yes all!) the songs,
from the sad, slow and tortured "Measurd"
to the heavy and loud "Herm-Aphrodite
Bells" are just excellent, really
it's hard to find something bad in this
release. Well, I'm trying to find, I
just can't. "Others" is the
best album of the band so far and if
you like Doom, like Death like Prog,
it will be something for you. Our French
guys have written ten great songs which
will stay in our memories and damn finally
we're in front of a band which has a
lot of personality, which knows how
to write something original and didn't
copy anybody. What can I add? I just
think that you should have a look on
this release as soon as possible.
"Others"
is the confirmation that Distress is
becoming a great band. The previous
albums of the combo were all really
good but this one is a lot more impressive.
This is a masterpiece, believe me it's
hard to find easily such releases nowadays
so don't miss it! I really hope that
"Others" will help the band
to get a name outside France now, they
deserve it. "Others" is a
must for the fans of Doom Progressive
and metal bands like Opeth.
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